More on Wilshire Subway

D.J. Waldie writes an excellent commentary on the burgeoning transit shift in LA. Read the entire piece. Here's my favorite part:

Big public transit projects are essential to the future of Los Angeles, even if they never add up to a coherent system....

If you've been reading these pages for a while, you may have caught the half-anxious, half-amazed tone of city watchers who seem to be wondering what to make of Los Angeles when it isn't Los Angeles any more, when all of our cliched assumptions — bright and noir — are questioned by our encounters with a city that isn't Raymond Chandler's or even Joan Didion's.

Public transit has the unsettling capacity to redefine our experience of a built-up, built-out and densified Los Angeles. If it's ever built, a subway into the west will carry more than passengers; it will bear our imagination into a city as yet unrealized.

I love The Big Sleep LA but I'm all for moving forward.